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Apache Kafka data inspection & search: Kpow demo

September 16, 2026 8 min Speaker: Chad Harris, Factor House
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Finding a specific record, or a specific pattern of records, inside a live Apache Kafka topic is usually painful without the right tooling. Chad Harris walks through data inspection in Kpow, from a quick look at the latest records on a topic to targeted, high-volume search across the whole cluster.

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Chad Harris

Chad Harris

Solutions Architect, Factor House

Chad Harris is a Solutions Architect at Factor House, bringing 18 years of experience across software engineering, application architecture, and engineering leadership. He has deep hands-on expertise with Apache Kafka, high-volume transactional systems, and PCI-compliant architectures, most recently as an Engineering Leader at Block (formerly Square).

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